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Written Question
Families
Wednesday 15th October 2014

Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech of 15 August 2011 calling for a family test to be applied to all domestic policy, which policies of his Department have been so assessed to date.

Answered by Dan Poulter

On 18 August 2014 the Prime Minister announced that the family test was being formalised as part of the impact assessment for all domestic policies. From October 2014, every new domestic policy will be examined for its impact on the family.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Let me reassure the Secretary of State that Opposition Members are pleased to see him still in his post today, but if I were him, I would not take that as a compliment. On GP access, what is he actually doing? Survey after survey shows that patient satisfaction with access …..."
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Written Question
Family Nurse Partnership Programme
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Family Nurse Partnership places there were in each year since 2010; and what progress the Government has made on its target of doubling the number of such places by 2015.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The commitment the Government made in 2010 to double the amount of places on the Family Nurse Partnership from a baseline of 6,000 was achieved by March 2014. It is currently expected that by 2015 there will be at least 16,000 places available. The figures for the end of each financial year since 2010 are as follows:

March 2011 – 6,000

March 2012 – 9,000

March 2013 – 11,000

March 2014 – 13,000

March 2015 - 16,000 expected

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Apr 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"T4. I have a question for the Secretary of State on performance-related pay. He will know that a year ago part of the Greater Manchester ambulance service was privatised to Arriva. For the first nine months of its contract, every single month it missed its targets for getting patients to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Apr 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"As we have heard, A and E waiting times are at their worst level for a decade, yet we hear of proposed A and E reconfigurations based on tackling so-called inappropriate presentations. Does the Secretary of State agree that that approach is the wrong way around and that he would …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2012
NHS Funding

"Even the north-west regional centre for cancer treatment, the Christie hospital, recently announced that 213 posts will go. I do not know how it stacks up with the Secretary of State’s claim that the NHS budget is going up, when we see cancer patients getting a reduced service at the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2012
NHS Funding

"My right hon. Friend might not be aware of another point. The patients who use the Greater Manchester passenger transport service are coming to me regularly and crying their eyes out in distress at this decision—[Interruption.] The hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuart) says “Aaah”, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2012
NHS Funding

"In addition to the point that the right hon. Gentleman is making, has he considered the chronic pressure that is being put on the NHS, which will get much worse from next April with the cuts to adult social care and the desperate cuts to local government? The conversation that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2012
NHS Funding

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Dec 2012
NHS Funding

"I thank the Minister for giving way. [Interruption.] Let me tell the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) that I am not going to read anything out. After such a long and lively debate, I just want to know whether the Minister …..."
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